Port Blair, April 3: The Andaman Nicobar Chess Association (ANCA) orgnised State School Chess Championship 2022 for school students today the 3rd April 2022 at JNRM Auditorium Port Blair.

More than 100 players of various schools of Andaman participated enthusiastically in the event. Shri. Kamlesh Kumar, Director Sports A&N Administration was the chief guest of the inauguration ceremony who made the first move on the top board to kick start the event in presence of Shri. Rakesh Ch. Lal, All India Radio and Shri Biswanath Sen , Asst. Director, Directorate of Education who graced the occasion as the guest of houners.

Port Blair, April 3: During the RT-PCR test conducted on 215 passengers who arrived here yesterday, no positive case has been detected. Today, 17 flights with 2517passengers arrived, out of which, 2204 passengers were vaccinated with both doses while RT-PCR test was conducted on 229 passengers and the reports are awaited. 

Port Blair, April 1: In continuation of the zero tolerance policy against any kind of crime, PS Aberdeen staff have cracked the Aberdeen Bazaar Hotel burglary case and recovered 2 Nos. I-Phones worth Rs. 1.17 Lakhs and Rs. 20,700/- cash.

On 21/03/2022, a case vide FIR No. 67/22 U/s 457/380 IPC was registered at PS Aberdeen and investigation was entrusted to SI Regan Isaac of PS Aberdeen. The case was initially a blind case of theft of Rs. 2 Lakhs of cash from the Hotel Beach Castle, Aberdeen Bazaar. However, working professionally, the team collected technical evidences in the form of CCTV footages, CDRs and identified the accused person. Based on the investigation, total 06 persons have been arrested for their involvement in the crime. The team of PS Aberdeen lead by SI Regan Isaac (Investigating Officer), HC/Sunil Singh Yadav, PC/S.N Rao, PC/Sandeep Lakra, PC/Sonu Yadav, PC/Ashish Kumar and PC/Shiv Kumar under the supervision of Insp. R.K Mazumder, I/c PS Aberdeen cracked the case and recovered 2 Nos. I-Phones worth Rs. 1.17 Lakhs and Rs. 20,700/- cash. The details of the accused persons are:

Port Blair, April 1: The National Students Union of India's State General Secretary, Mr. Saurav Nair has urged the Ministry of Education Minister Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan to immediately stop University Grant Commission (UGC) from invalidating the degrees of Annamalai University Students after learning that the UGC has termed the Open & Distance learning (ODL) degrees awarded by the Annamalai University as "invalid".

Port Blair, April 1: The Chairperson, Port Blair Municipal Council Smti. Kavitha Udhaya Kumar along with the Senior Vice Chairperson, Shri.Azizur Rehman and Junior Vice Chairperson Smti. A. Selva Rani met the Chief Secretary, Shri. Jitendra Narayan on 31st March 2022.